Russia falsely claims US laboratories have moved from Ukraine to Mongolia
E. Rosalie Li, M.A. • April 16, 2022
According to Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachev, after the beginning of the “special operation in Ukraine,” the Americans moved their top-secret bioweapons to Mongolia:
Americans are going to build laboratories there. There are good reasons to believe that these are the same ones that they have curtailed in Ukraine. It is important for them to remain close to Russia.
The Evidence
Hoaxlines Lab inquired about the claims that the Defense Threat Reduction Agency had relocated laboratories. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency Public Affairs replied:
Our Agency has no current, active, or planned engagements with Mongolia. We are not aware of any relationship between Ukraine and Mongolia to move pathogens.
The Russian state has offered no evidence for its repeated assertions related to false claims it made about laboratories. Given Russia’s history of making false claims about the United States and biological weapons–Russia spread bioweapon disinformation about the US for the first time no later than 1949–we’re not taking Russia’s word on this.
To provide just one example of the harm Russia has caused with similar narratives, in 1982, after a long-term Soviet disinformation campaign, Pakistan denied visa renewals to US scientists. It ordered them to leave the country under threat of arrest. The scientists were there with the equivalent of over $9 billion in 2022 to research malaria control and prevent thousands of deaths in the region annually.
Why did Pakistan become so hostile toward the scientists, then? A Soviet disinformation campaign systematically spread rumors that the US was studying biological warfare for use in Cuba by experimenting on Pakistan’s people. The cost of this disinformation was every life we could have saved between 1982 and the early 2000s when Pakistan finally reduced malaria cases in the area.
The Context
The Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communications, which has published daily digests of Russia’s false claims, sees a more ominous meaning in the Kremlin’s game of musical bioweapons labs:
Moscow is trying to further draw Beijing to its side in the war not so much with Kyiv as with Washington. We will see what happens, but the intentions of the propaganda are quite clear.
The Verdict: False
Claims that the US has moved laboratories from Ukraine to Mongolia are without evidence, and the Agency “has no current, active, or planned engagements with Mongolia.”
False biological weapons claims about the U.S. date back to 1949
Soviet agents planted stories in newspapers around the world. In the 1980s, those stories were about HIV. This tradition of false claims has continued until today. An example is the false claims about Mongolia recently. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency Public Affairs told Hoaxlines:
Our Agency has no current, active, or planned engagements with Mongolia. We are not aware of any relationship between Ukraine and Mongolia to move pathogens.
False stories about the U.S. were popular in the 1980s. Russian disinformation, placed in newspapers around the world, suggested the U.S. created HIV. Nearly 40 years later, this belief is still believed.
Translation:“We are conducting a series of [active] measures in connection with the appearance in recent years in the U.S.A. of a new and dangerous disease, “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome – AIDS”…, and its subsequent, large-scale spread to other countries, including those in Western Europe.”
—handwritten letter by Soviet KGB agent, September 1985
Disinformation efforts continued after the fall of the Soviets in the early 1990s. While not all headlines reflect active measures, how they build upon one another over time is remarkable.
2002 to 2003
2005
- Avian Flu, another Pentagon Hoax?
- The Pentagon’s alarming project: Avian Flu Biowar Vaccine
- Bird Flu: A Corporate Bonanza for the Biotech Industry
2009
- The truth about the pandemic flu vaccines
- The Swine Flu Vaccine is part of the NWO's Depopulation Plan
- 2009 H1N1 Swine/Bird Flu 'Pandemic' Hysteria Part of NWO Population Reduction Agenda (March 30, 2012)
- Pandemic—How they plan to deceive the Christians
2012
- Ebola Virus: The Global Elite's Bio-Weapon Scheme for 90 Percent Depopulation
- Ebola vaccine pioneer joked about the use of genetically engineered viruses to cull the human population.
- Depopulation: Could a Speech From 8 Years Ago Hold the Key to the Rapid Spread of Ebola?
- Russia Developed the Ebola Vaccine
2016
- Russia Accuses Bill Gates Of Engineering The Zika Virus To Depopulate The World
- The article, Bill Gates was Involved in the artificial creation of the Zika Epidemic to Reduce the World’s Population, appeared in Geopolitica.ru—Italian in 2020.
- Globalist governments engineered the staged Zika pandemic to justify the aerial bombardment of awakening populations with toxic chemicals.
- The Zika virus and the NWO depopulation agenda
- The war on fertility via the Forced Vaccination agenda: Enter the Zika Virus
2017
- The narrative spread by Russian and Chinese accounts in March 2022 first appeared in 2017. A pro-Kremlin hacking collective called CyberBerkut (recognized as a GRU front organization) published the story, as did Russian state media. Later, in 2018, the FSB-controlled outlet South Front published this false narrative.
- Zero Hedge, recently called out by the U.S. government for boosting Kremlin content, also ran the story in 2018—although it has since been deleted. A more detailed report about this instance can be found here:
- U.S.-Ukraine ‘biolabs story’ likely authored by Russian intelligence
Soviet legacy of illicit biological weapons
Besides the Kremlin’s history of spreading false bioweapons claims, the other inaccuracy concerns existing laboratories in Ukraine that were created in cooperation with the United States. Far from creating bioweapons, these laboratories were created to secure the Soviet Union’s biological weapons, which it developed in violation of a treaty the Soviets had signed.
Indeed, these clear violations on the convention were only admitted after the totalitarian regime collapsed and duplicity in politics was abandoned … The remnants of the offensive programs in the area of BW (biological weapons) were still around as recently as 1991. It was only in 1992 that Russia absolutely stopped this work.General Kuntsevich, 1992
The Soviet Union was the nation that created the bioweapons that Russia’s actions now threaten to unleash—however small that risk may be—by indiscriminately bombing and attacking Ukraine. Russia both created and now risks unleashing the threat.